Artist Nakahara Nantembo, Japanese, 1839 - 1925
Title
  • Nanten Staff
Date 1900
Medium Ink on paper
Dimensions Image: 44 5/8 × 12 1/8 inches (113.3 × 30.8 cm)
Overall: 58 × 18 inches (147.3 × 45.7 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Paul and Diane Haig
Accession Number 1999.89
Department Asian Art
Not On View
Signed Signed: [Eighty-one-year-old old man Nantembo]
Marks Marked, in red, upper right: [seal]
Marked, in red, lower left: [two seals]
Inscriptions Calligraphy: [translation: If you speak, Nanten[bo] | if you don't speak, Nanten[bo].]
(Dr. Frederick Baekeland, New York, New York, USA);
Paul and Diane Haig;
1999-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)